Wealth inequality and efficiency in the commons part I: The unregulated case

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 451-482

  Baland, Jean Marie ^a   Platteau, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON PROPERTY; INEQUALITY; RESOURCES; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031429413     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a028620     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. BALAND, J.-M. and PLATTEAU, J.-P. (1996) Halting Degradation of Natural Resources. Is there a Role for Rural Communities?, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
2. BALAND, J.-M. and FRANCOIS, P. (1997) 'Inequality and Privatization of the Commons', mimeo, University of Namur.
3. BALAND, J.-M. and PLATTEAU, J.-P. (1997a). 'Coordination Problems in Resource Conservation Programs', Journal of Development Economics, 44.
4. BALAND, J.-M. and PLATTEAU, J.-P. (1997b). 'The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Collective Action: an Application to the Commons', mimeo, Department of Economics, University of Namur (forthcoming in World Development).
5. BALAND, J.-M. and RAY, D. (1997). 'Technical Complementarities and the Impact of Inequality on the Provision of Local Public Goods', mimeo, Department of Economics, University of Namur.
6. BARDHAN, P. (1993). 'Analytics of the Institutions of Informal Cooperation in Rural Development', World Development, 21, 633-9.
7. BARDHAN, P. and DAYTON-JOHNSON, J. (1996). 'Inequality and Conservation on the Local Common: a Theoretical Perspective', mimeo, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley.
8. BERGSTROM, T., BLUME, L., and VARIAN, H. (1986). On the Private Provision of Public Goods', Journal of Public Economics, 29, 25-49.
9. BERRY, S. (1984). 'The Food Crisis and Agrarian Change in Africa: a Review Essay', African Studies Review, 27, 59-112.
10. BRAVERMAN, A., GUASCH, J. L., HUPPI, M., and POHLMEIER, L. (1991). 'Promoting Rural Cooperatives in Developing Countries - The case of Sub-Saharan Africa', World Bank Discussion Papers, 121, Washington, DC.
11. COASE, R. H. (1960), 'The Problem of Social Cost', Journal of Law and Economics, 3, 1-44.
12. COATE, S. and RAVAILLON, M. (1993). 'Reciprocity Without Commitment: Characterization and Performance of Informal Insurance Arrangements', Journal of Development Economics, 40, 1-24.
13. DAS GUPTA, M. (1987). 'Informal Security Mechanisms and Population Retention in Rural India', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 36/1, 101-20.
14. DATTA, S. K., and KAPOOR, S. (1996). Collective Action, Leadership and Success in Agricultural Cooperatives - a Study of Gujarat and West Bengal, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi and Calcutta.
15. DAWES, R. M. and THALER, R. H. (1988). 'Anomalies, Cooperation', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2, 187-97.
16. FAFCHAMPS, M. (1992). 'Solidarity Networks in Preindustrial Societies: Rational Peasants with a Moral Economy', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 41, 147-74.
17. FARRELL, J. (1987). 'Information and the Coase Theorem', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1, 113-29.
18. GARCIA-BARRIOS, R. and GARCIA-BARRIOS, L. (1990). 'Environmental and Technological Degradation in Peasant Agriculture: a Consequence of Development in Mexico', World Development, 18/11, 1569-85.
19. GASPART, F., JABBART, M., MELARD, C., and PLATTEAU, J.-P. (1997). 'Participation in the Construction of a Local Public Good with Indivisibilities - An Application to Watershed Development in Ethiopia', Working Paper Series, No. 181, Department of Economics, University of Namur.
20. HARDIN, G., (1968). 'The Tragedy of the Commons', Science, 162, 1243-48.
21. HARDIN, R. (1982). Collective Action, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
22. HAYAMI, Y. and KIKUCHI, M. (1981). Asian Village Economy at the Crossroads - an Economic Approach to Institutional Change, University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo.
23. HECKATHORN, D. W. (1993). 'Collective Action and Group Heterogeneity: Voluntary Provision versus Selective Incentives', American Sociological Review, 58, 329-50.
24. JODHA, N. S. (1986). 'Common Property Resources and Rural Poor in Dry Regions of India', Economic and Political Weekly, 21/27, 1169-82.
25. KIMBALL, M. S. (1988). 'Farmers' Cooperatives as Behavior towards Risk', American Economic Review, 78, 224-32.
26. MASKIN, E. (1994). 'The Invisible Hand and Externalities', American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 84, 333-7.
27. OLIVER, P. E. and MARWELL, G. (1988). 'The Paradox of Group Size and Collective Action: a Theory of the Critical Mass. II', American Sociological Review, 53, 1-8.
28. OLIVER, P. E., MARWELL G., and TUXERA, R. (1985). 'Theory of the Critical Mass. I. Interdependence, Group Heterogeneity and the Production of Collective Action', American Journal of Sociology, 91, 522-56.
29. OLSON, M. (1965). The Logic of Collective Action, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
30. OLSON, M. (1982). The Rise and Decline of Nations, Yale University Press, New Haven, N.J. and London.
31. OSTROM, E. (1990). Governing the Commons - the Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
32. PLATTEAU, J.-P. (1991). 'Traditional Systems of Social Security and Hunger Insurance: Past Achievements and Modern Challenges', in E. Ahmad, J. Drèze, J. Hills, and A. K. Sen (eds), Social Security in Developing Countries, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 112-70.
33. RUDDLE, K. (1987). Administration and Conflict Management in Japanese Coastal Fisheries, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 273, FAO, Rome.
34. SANDLER, T. (1992). Collective Action: Theory and Applications, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
35. SANDLER, T. and FORBES, J. F. (1980). 'Burden Sharing, Strategy and the Design of NATO', Economic Inquiry, 18, 425-44.
36. SHANMUGARATNAM, N., VEDELD, T., MOSSIGE, A., and BOVIN, M. (1992). 'Resource Management and Pastoral Institution Building in the West African Sahel', World Bank Discussion Papers, No. 175, Washington, DC.
37. SHAPLEY, L. S. and SHUBIK, M. (1969). On the Core of an Economic System with Externalities', American Economic Review, 59, 678-84.
38. SWALLOW, B. and BROMLEY, D. (1995). 'Institutions, Governance and Incentives in Common Property Regimes for African Rangelands', Environmental and Resource Economics, 5, 1-20.
39. UDRY, C. (1994). 'Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market: an Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria', Review of Economic Studies, 61, 495-526.
40. WARR, P. G. (1982). 'Pareto Optimal Redistribution and Private Charity', Journal of Public Economics, 19, 131-8.